'Luddite' definitions:
Definition of 'Luddite'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any opponent of technological progress
noun
One of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
Definition of 'Luddite'
From: GCIDE
- Luddite \Lud"dite\, n. One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. --J. & H. Smith. --H. Martineau. [1913 Webster]